Ethiopic Miracles: A Database to Link Images and Texts of Marian Miracles
The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean & Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project (PEMM), hosted by Princeton University, aims to bring together the…
Year: 2024
Editor’s Digest December 2024: Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies
Since September 2024, I have been the editor of the new section of The Digital Orientalist on Persian, Turkic, and…
Partition Revisited: Bridging History and Technology to Trace Refugee Rehabilitation
This is a guest post by Gursimran Kaur Butalia. The Partition of India in 1947 remains a deeply personal and…
Recent Advancements: Unlocking Syriac and Arabic Texts on Archive.org
For scholars and students of Syriac and Arabic, the vast digital text library of Archive.org has always held immense potential.…
Exploring the (Digital) World of Ottoman Turkish Texts: The Digital Ottoman Corpora
It is fascinating to see how Ottoman Turkish texts are transcribed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)-operated tools, such as Handwritten…
Using Furigana Bunko
Those who have spoken to me about transcription might know that I swear by Furigana Bunko. Sadly, I rarely find…
At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France
As Dominique Stutzmann points out in an article for the renowned French media outlet L’Histoire in 2017, paleography has undergone…
Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD: The Persons and Names of Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database
This is the English version of the Japanese article at Jimbun Jōhōgaku Geppō (『人文情報学月報』: Digital Humanities Monthly), 159 (1), titled…
Editor’s Digest November 2024: Northeast Asian Studies
Since my last Editor’s Digest back in February, the Northeast Asian Studies team alongside several guest contributors have published an…
Aksharamukha: The Automated Transliteration Tool to Simplify Script Conversion
Aksharamukha, a free and open-source transliteration tool supporting 121 scripts and 21 romanization methods, enhances access to multilingual texts and facilitates cross-cultural communication.